58. "Loose Ends"

Tracks, 1998

"Loose Ends" was going to be the final song on The Ties That Bind, the album-in-progress that Springsteen decided to scrap in 1979 because it "seem[ed] inadequate." Van Zandt reportedly argued for it to be included on The River, to no avail. The harrowing rocker about a fading relationship didn't get an official release until the Tracks box, two decades after it was recorded.